Word: oblivions
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...minute TV commercial for the Super Bowl costs $200,000. The concentration on the financial aspects of sports, however, are only initially interesting. The quotation of astronomically figures eventually becomes boring, and it is only Durso's good writing which rescues his intelligent intellectual approach from an oblivion of six-diget numbers...
...American Kid might imagine that science fiction has changed a lot in the last five or six years. He could speculate on several trends in particular, one of which is symbolized by the landing of a three-legged, mirror-eyed moon probe which, by failing to sink into dusty oblivion, made Arthur C. Clarke's classic A Fall of Moondust, with its depiction of vast seas of lunar dust, immediately obsolete. Even as writers continued to anticipate it, the future had begun to arrive...
...dressed the front half of a manikin bride in white satin and posed her triumphantly at the head of the staircase. Their tableau extended to the bottom of the stairs, where the rear half of the bride disappeared into the gray woodwork, carrying her dashed dreams with her into oblivion...
...publishing those terrible first drafts of his famous poems before the poems themselves came out. "I hold it very indecent that a man should publish his meditations," said the Earl of Shaftesbury. "These are the froth and scum of writing, which should be unburdened in private and consigned to oblivion, before the writer comes before the world as good company...
Rabbit, Run was a quest; its sequel is a psychic Odyssey. Rabbit ran from a variety of constricting consequences only to be thrust into quiet Eisenhower-era oblivion. This older Harry (rarely "Rabbit" now except in conscience) plays the same role in all the conflicts he's involved in. He changes internally more than the earlier Rabbit ever did; in Redux, he learns to live his life with a higher degree of consciousness...